The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

"Your Majesty, Princess Wang has become too powerful and commands immense military might. You must take precautions!"

"Your Majesty, the people know only of Princess Wang, not of you!"

"Your Majesty, many of your advisors are beginning to entertain thoughts of backing a new ruler!"

"Your Majesty, artifacts have appeared among the people with phoenixes carved above dragons!"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

"Get out! All of you, get out! Wang is my own flesh and blood, my sister! She would never betray me!"

"Get out..."

"Chen Dong, Chen Dong, are you okay?"

'This is... this is Li Zhixuan's voice. Right, I'm Chen Dong. I'm not Li Xu anymore.'

Chen Dong groggily opened his eyes. He saw Li Zhixuan wrapped in bandages like a mummy and realized it had all been a dream.

Chen Dong couldn't remember the last time he'd had a dream.

'Wait a minute... these bandages... why do they look so much like the ones from a modern-world hospital? Surveying the room—these white walls, these blue curtains, two hospital beds, and the television hanging on the opposite wall... could I have returned to the modern world?'

Chen Dong eagerly spread his Divine Sense. A hospital room, an inpatient building, a hospital, streets bustling with traffic, a clamorous city...

'I'm back!' Chen Dong's heart leaped with joy.

"You look like you know where this is," Li Zhixuan asked.

Although it looked a lot like the modern world, Chen Dong couldn't be certain just yet. He didn't answer the question, asking instead, "How did we get here? Where are Zhang Jun and the others?"

Li Zhixuan shook his head. "I don't know how we got here either. I just woke up myself. We're the only two people in this strange room. I searched with my Divine Sense. There are a lot of people outside, but no sign of them. I was about to ask you if this could be the Yun Gu Sect's Upper Realm. It's so bizarre!"

Just then, the clicking of high heels sounded from outside the door.

The door pushed open to reveal a young woman in her early twenties, dressed like an office worker. With her fresh-faced look, she had clearly graduated recently. She had eyebrow-length bangs and a single ponytail, wore light makeup, and her large eyes were filled with anxiety.

Seeing that the two of them were awake, the young woman said hurriedly, "You're awake! I'll go get the doctor!"

"Wait!"

Chen Dong stopped her and asked, "Were you the one who brought us here?"

At this question, the young woman looked as if she were about to burst into tears. "I didn't hit you! You suddenly fell from the sky, right in front of my car! I couldn't stop in time! It really wasn't my fault, I don't have any money... SOB..."

As she spoke, the young woman really did start to cry.

Chen Dong winced in frustration. "Alright, alright, stop crying. We don't blame you, and we don't want your money!"

The young woman, who had just been crying her eyes out, immediately stopped when she heard this and quickly asked, "Are you telling the truth?"

Chen Dong nodded. "Yes, really! But first, answer a few of my questions. What's your name?"

"Meng Xuejing!"

"Where are we? What world is this? Ah, never mind. Give me your phone. I'll look it up myself!"

Meng Xuejing was taken aback, then immediately looked aggrieved. "Didn't you say you didn't want my money? Why do you want my phone?"

Chen Dong was getting a little annoyed, perhaps because he was in a hurry. "I already told you I don't want your money! Just hand it over. Enough with the nonsense!"

Meng Xuejing pouted. "Why are you being so mean!" Still, she took out her phone, handed it to Chen Dong, and even thoughtfully unlocked it.

Li Zhixuan found the object novel. Despite the cast on his leg, he flashed to Chen Dong's side and asked curiously, "Is this kind of Magical Artifact called a 'phone'? My Divine Sense detected that almost everyone outside has one."

Chen Dong ignored him, instead searching for various news and information. He finally confirmed that he had indeed returned to the modern world, and that two years had passed since he left. He was currently in the Second People's Hospital of Qianzhou City.

'Logically, passing through the Yun Gu Sect's Realm Passage should have led to the Yun Gu Sect's Upper Realm. How did I end up back in the modern world?'

Chen Dong thought about it for a moment. 'It must be a problem with the Inference Array. I performed a forward and reverse inference using both the array from the modern world and the residual array. The resulting array must be why we returned to the modern world.'

Once he figured this out, Chen Dong stopped dwelling on it. Returning to the modern world was exactly what he wanted anyway.

He then used Meng Xuejing's phone to call Li Wang.

"The number you have dialed is currently switched off..."

'Li Wang must have already gone to the Floating Shadow Realm,' he thought, and so he dialed Murong Qing's number.

"The number you have dialed is currently switched off..."

Chen Dong frowned. 'Why would Murong Qing's phone be off? Could she be busy with something?'

After a moment's hesitation, Chen Dong tried calling Li Huiran.

But it was the same message: "The number you have dialed is currently switched off..."

Chen Dong's frown deepened. He searched for news about the Li Group, and the information he found showed that the general manager was now Li Jianwen. Li Huiran had stepped down two years ago.

'This is so confusing,' Chen Dong thought. 'Ah, forget it. After the way we said goodbye back then, I shouldn't bother her now.'

He then handed the phone back to Meng Xuejing and said, "Get us discharged from the hospital."

But at his words, Meng Xuejing burst into tears again. "I really don't have any money..."